Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brazil's Senate voted final approval, 40 to 8, of the Bilateral Military Assistance pact. Brazil agreed to supply strategic materials to the U.S.; in return, the U.S. will provide Brazil with technical military assistance and training equipment. The pact, similar to others signed with Chile, Cuba, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Uruguay and the Dominican Republic, had long been blocked and bitterly attacked by Communists and extreme nationalists as a slur on Brazil's "sovereignty." To preside over the joint Brazilian-U.S. military commission, President Vargas appointed Brigadier Eduardo Gomes, his 1950 election opponent...
...Bates was an old South America hand. A U.S. citizen by birth, she went to Chile and Bolivia as the bride of a British mining engineer. After he drifted out of the picture, she moved to Arequipa and started a guesthouse with a small garden. In time it grew into a long, rambling structure surrounded by a pleasant jungle of trellised roses, honeysuckle and bougainvillaea. She called it Quinta Bates, and ran it with an imperious hand; travelers came to esteem it as the finest boarding house in the Western Hemisphere...
...needed, and was counted out. Russia named Polish Foreign Minister Stanislaw Skrzeszewski, who got only one vote (Russia). Denmark proposed Canada's Lester Pearson, and many believed that he would not be actively opposed by Russia. Pearson overcame the first obstacle with nine votes (U.S., Britain, France, China, Chile, Denmark, Pakistan, Colombia, Greece), but fell before the second, a Soviet veto (its 56th in the Security Council). The ballots, which are supposed to be secret but aren't, were then ceremoniously burned in a tin wastebasket. One possibility: if the Security Council cannot find anyone acceptable to Russia...
...Other signers: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Peru and Uruguay. The agreements provide for U.S. arms aid as authorized under the Mutual Security Agency's $51.6 million program for Latin America...
...scarcely seemed so. The profits of the coppermen have been dwindling, squeezed between higher labor costs and the ceilings. Moreover, at a time when domestic producers have been frozen at 24½? a lb., the U.S. fabricators have been paying the world price of 36? a lb. to Chile, for copper produced mainly by U.S. companies there. But the companies in Chile got only the domestic price of 24½?; the rest went to Chile as a sort of bonus for not selling its copper to Russia or its satellites. With a 12? spread between the U.S. price...